Historical Marker
Washingtons Headquarters
Historical marker location:
Plattekill, New York
( Marker is on New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1963
Liberty and Washington Streets, Newburgh. Historic New York.
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.